[Leaplist] Wifi on Laptop -- 32-bit (x86) v. 48-bit (x86-64) drivers

[Danny W. Burdick]

Negative....
if you look into the config files for using ndiswrapper on most of them
they come with two distinct different groups of lookup lists

Under 32bit you will most likely find near 20 different ones
but under 64bit maybe 5 or 6 when it came to network cards or modems....

That's what I have found.....many many times I have people bring me
these new 64bit boxen and the only way I can config em up easily
without getting into recompiling and chasing down source...is
to take the easy way out and just install the 32bit of that distro......

burdicda

Besides that.....realistically.......
What does an individual (non-programmer/developer) need with a full 64bit
operating system anyways.....????
using their desktop as a simple desktop....
not a server......not a virtual hosting service...but just a simple 
simple desktop....


Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 21:07 -0400, Danny W . Burdick wrote:
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>> I do 32bit more hardware supported
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> I've never heard of any 32-bit (x86) v. 48-bit (x86-64) hardware support
> issues on Linux.  The only time I've heard of any issues are possibly
> binary firmware or other, binary driver issues -- e.g., needing to load
> the Win64 NDIS driver on Linux/x86-64 for NDISWrapper.  But if you use
> hardware that is well supported by a vendor (most these days), they have
> full Linux/x86-64 kernel support.
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